While dying only means restarting the level again from the start, until you run out of patience. Which seems like a really stupid idea, since when going through screens/levels you will need to be performing actions that are sometimes illogical. Unlike the later titles, performing incorrect actions makes your lifebar go down. Gobliiins is the first part of the series and it has one unique and super oldschool feature of the genre – you can die. According to some forum posts, GoG originally only had CD versions, so I’m glad they added the floppy versions later on. Issue with the CD releases is – the new voice acting was far worse than the “goblin language” of the original releases, while some of the music changes just sounded less nice. In case of this series, it meant new music and voice acting for the games and fully animated cutscenes for the third game. You see, as it was the case with some titles back in the day, some games later received CD re-releases that could change some elements of the games. First pleasant surprise of this release was the fact that floppy versions of the games were also included. Well, I’ve bought the Gobliiins Pack on GoG, and decided to check. I played it only for a bit and it made me question myself – what if the classic titles were as tedious, as uninspired, as illogical? Was it all nostalgia and the original games weren’t that good anymore? A few years ago we saw a very quiet release of Gobliiins 4. Then we switched to Space Quest, to Leisure Suit Larry and other titles, because we realized how fun the adventure games could be. While people with powerful PCs played Doom, I was playing Montezuma’s Revenge on my Поиск-1, my friend played these games on his system. They were the games that somewhat defined my humor, defined my understanding of the use of voices in games, defined my visual style preferences as I was a kid. Along with the Kyrandia titles from Westwood they were the very first adventure titles that I’ve played. Gobliiins hold important memories for me. O tempora is a series of retrospective posts where I play games from ages before to see if they stood the test of time.
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